Wendy Sherman’s Remarks at Global China Event

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US Department of State

REMARKS

WENDY R. SHERMAN, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

WASHINGTON, DC

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Good morning everyone. Thank you, Suzanne, for that introduction, and thank you to the team at Brookings for organizing today’s discussion.

You know, when we first talked about doing an event tied to your Global China program, the topic was, in a sense, evergreen. We could have planned this conversation virtually anytime.

The People’s Republic of China, the challenges it poses, the stakes for global norms and values, the strategies and policy choices demanded from the United States and our partners — these questions have stood front and center from the moment President Biden took office.

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Turmoil in global LNG markets is curbing long-term demand growth

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February 15, 2023, IEEFA

  

Key Takeaways:

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended global LNG markets last year—spurring Europe to buy record amounts of LNG, and pushing prices to their highest level ever

In Asia, LNG has earned a reputation as an expensive and unreliable fuel source, clouding future demand

The EU is taking aggressive steps to trim gas consumption, which could render new LNG import capacity unneeded

Although LNG markets may remain tight for several years, the global LNG market will see a wave of new projects coming online in 2025-27—potentially leading to a supply-demand mismatch and financial risks for LNG suppliers and traders

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CFR – Daily News Brief – Feb. 17, 2023

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Top of the Agenda

Munich Security Conference Focuses on Ukraine War Effort

Hundreds of Western officials are in Munich to discuss boosting support for Ukraine, which could include further military aid and stronger sanctions against Russia. In a video address to attendees, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for accelerated weapons deliveries (NYT) to defend against Russian forces. A report issued by the chair of the conference warned that “revisionist actors” are threatening the international order, but also said that the order should better address (DW) the interests of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

The leaders of countries including France, Germany, and the United Kingdom are expected to attend the security conference, while both Russia and Iran were uninvited (FT). Instead, the Belarusian and Russian presidents met separately to discuss their alliance. Meanwhile, Russian shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut killed five people (Kyiv Independent) yesterday, Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office said.
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What is Blue Carbon?

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Blue carbon is the term for carbon captured by the world’s ocean and coastal ecosystems.

National Ocean Service

This is an image of a mangrove, but did you know it is also an image of a sink? A carbon sink.
Yes, this is an image of a mangrove, but did you know it is also an image of a sink? A carbon sink. Don’t know what that is? Read below.
Did you know?

NOAA’s National Estuarine Research Reserves and their partners are working to make wetlands conservation and restoration profitable while lessening greenhouse gas emissions through blue carbon financial markets. These markets balance projects that feature heat-trapping emissions with contributions that take carbon out of the atmosphere. Efforts thus far have produced the first-ever U.S. guide that makes salt marsh restoration eligible for international carbon markets; research that documents carbon storage capabilities in the marsh; workshops and school curricula on the topic; and newsletters and technical assistance.

Something that has a significant effect on our daily lives and is stored within the largest system of water on our planet must be a household name, right? Not necessarily. Have you ever heard of blue carbon? Chances are the answer is no, but perhaps you know more than you realize.

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Big Oil’s Big Lies: How the industry denied global warming – 2 parts

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Big Oil’s Big Lies: How the industry denied global warming – Part 1 | People and Power

Big Oil’s Big Lies: How the industry denied global warming – Part 2 | People and Power

Al Jazeera English – 9-2-2023

More than 40 years ago, the world’s largest and most profitable oil companies began to understand the effects their products were having on our climate. Their own scientific research told them so – well before it became common knowledge.

But for the next four decades – time we could have better spent transitioning to greener forms of energy – they sought to discredit and downplay evidence of global warming and the calamities it would lead to; wildfires, rising sea levels, extreme storms and much else besides. Tiếp tục đọc “Big Oil’s Big Lies: How the industry denied global warming – 2 parts” →

Tiếc cho mía đường miền Tây! – Nông dân bỏ mía, nhà máy đường đóng cửa: hãy để thị trường tự điều chỉnh!

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Tiếc cho mía đường miền Tây!

Trung Chánh – Thứ Ba, 10/01/2023

Kinh tế Sài Gòn Online – Việc áp thuế chống bán phá giá đối với đường mía của Thái Lan cũng như áp thuế chống lẩn tránh biện pháp phòng vệ thương mại đối với đường mía có nguồn gốc của Thái Lan từ một số nước khu vực Đông Nam Á (ASEAN) được xem là điều kiện quan trọng để thúc đẩy phát triển ngành mía đường Việt Nam nói chung và Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (ĐBSCL) nói riêng. Tuy nhiên, điều đó vẫn khó có thể cứu được ngành mía đường ở ĐBSCL khi “căn bệnh” của ngành sản xuất này đã lan rộng.

Hàng loạt nhà máy đường ở miền Tây phải đóng cửa hoặc hoạt động cầm chừng vì không có mía nguyên liệu. Ảnh minh hoạ: CTV

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The Drone War in Ukraine Is Cheap, Deadly, and Made in China

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Crowdsourced donations are fueling eyes in the sky.

FEBRUARY 16, 2023, 10:06 AM FP

By Faine Greenwood, an expert on unmanned aerial vehicles, technology in humanitarian aid, remote sensing, spatial data, and data policy and ethics.

A Ukrainian serviceman holds up a drone carrying a mock grenade in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Feb. 9. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Almost a year after Russian tanks first began rolling over the border into Ukraine, a war many expected would be over within a month continues to grind on. It’s grimly reminiscent of European conflicts of the 20th century—but it’s also the first war in history where both sides have made extensive use of cheap, startlingly effective small drones, the kind that can be bought at electronics stores or built with simple hobby kits.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, I knew two things for sure. First, that Ukraine was going to stun the world with what it could do with small do-it-yourself and consumer drones, a skillset that their drone hobbyists and tech experts had been tirelessly expanding ever since Russia’s earlier invasion in 2014 – efforts led by now-famous volunteer drone organizations like Aerorozvidka, whose members had become some of the world’s premier experts on building, modifying, and using small, cheap drones in warfare.  Second, I knew that as an expert in both consumer and hobby drones, I was going to do my best to document what happened next.

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The AI arms race is on. Are regulators ready?

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BY REBECCA KLAR – 02/14/23 5:03 AM ET

SHARETWEET

The Microsoft Bing logo and the website’s page are shown in this photo taken in New York on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The race among tech companies to roll out generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is raising concerns about how mistakes in technology and blind spots in regulation could hasten the spread of misinformation, elevate biases in results and increase the harvesting and use of Americans’ personal data.

So far tech giants Microsoft and Google are leading the race in releasing new AI tools to the public, but smaller companies and startups are expected to make progress in the field.

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The Guide to Investment Treaty Protection and Enforcement – First Edition

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A very British way of torture

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A Very British Way of Torture | Featured Documentaries

Al Jazeera English – 8-12-2022

Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides.

For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden.

Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture – including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.

A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.

Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.

Những lớp tâm tính Việt bên dòng Bassac

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LOUIS RAYMOND 15/02/2023 17:24 GMT+7

TTCT – Ký sự của một người Pháp có một phần dòng máu Việt Nam về những lớp tâm tính Việt ở quốc gia láng giềng Campuchia, trong một thời đại bản sắc dần phai mờ, những biên giới dần nhạt nhòa mà quá khứ thì lúc nào cũng ám ảnh.

Trở lại Campuchia luôn mang tới cho tôi một cảm giác kỳ lạ. Ngay khi nhảy xuống chuyến xe đò từ TP.HCM hay rời chiếc máy bay ở phi trường Pochentong, tôi cảm thấy mình là một kẻ hoàn toàn xa lạ. Tiếng Khmer của tôi chỉ ở mức sơ đẳng, và tôi nhanh chóng lạc lối khi gắng giải thích với người tài xế xe tuktuk nơi mình muốn đến. Dù đã ghé thăm vài lần, Campuchia hiện đại là đất nước tôi không hề biết rõ. Trong khi đó, Campuchia của quá khứ thì tôi lại được nghe kể nhiều rồi, hay thậm chí có thể nói là một phần của tôi thuộc về đất nước ngày xưa đó.

Một gia đình Campuchia sống ven sông. Ảnh: L. Raymond
Một gia đình Campuchia sống ven sông. Ảnh: L. Raymond

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Vietnam exporters fret over potential trade fallout of U.S. rules on Xinjiang

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February 14, 20233:32 PM – By Francesco Guarascio

A woman works at a yarn weaving plant in Ha Nam province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam

[1/4] A woman works at a yarn weaving plant in Ha Nam province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam October 7, 2015. REUTERS/Kham/File

HANOI, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Concerned Vietnam-based exporters are seeking to ensure they comply with a U.S. ban on imported products using raw materials from China’s Xinjiang as lucrative trade in goods like garments and solar panels comes under closer scrutiny in Washington.

As U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai visits Vietnam this week, executives and other people familiar with the situation said some industries in Vietnam may be importing, sometimes unwittingly, raw material from Xinjiang – or might find it hard to prove they were not doing so.

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South Korea’s Indo-Pacific pivot strategy

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By David Scott

David Scott (davidscott366@outlook.com) is member of the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC) and is a prolific writer on Indo-Pacific geopolitics (www.d-scott.com/publications).

2022 ended with South Korea adopting specific Indo-Pacific terminology with the Dec. 28 release of its Strategy for a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region (SFPPIP). The key takeaway: The SFPPIP, and President Yoon Suk Yeol, signal an end to South Korea’s “strategic ambiguity” under the previous president, Moon Jae-in. Seoul pivoting away from Beijing and toward Washington—delicately, but clearly.
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Norway warns of growing importance of Russian nuclear ‘deterrent’ in Arctic

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‘Tactical nuclear weapons are a particularly serious threat,’ Norwegian intelligence report says.

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A Russian nuclear-powered ice-breaker in Saint Petersburg in 2020 | Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images

BY WILHELMINE PREUSSEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2023 2:04 PM CET, politico.eu

While war rages in Ukraine, Norway’s intelligence service is warning of the increasing importance of Russia’s nuclear “deterrent” in the Arctic waters of the far north.

“As the importance of nuclear weapons and strategic deterrent forces increases, the Northern Fleet’s defense of the military bases in Kola, the Northern Bastion and the Barents Sea is also becoming more important,” the Norwegian Intelligence Service said in its annual report.

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